HYMENOPTERA. 



397 



** Anterior tarsi ivith one or more of the basal joints 



dilated. 



22. Crabro clypeatus. B.M. 



Sphex clypeata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 945. 24 <J . 



Schrank, Ins. Austr. 386. 780. 



Christ. Hym. 285. t. 27. f. 5. 

 Crabro clypeatus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 375. 7 <?; Ent. Syst. ii. 297. 

 15; Syst. Piez. 3\2. 18. 



Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 90. 880. 



Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 515. 16. 



Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 323. 2 ; Nouv. Diet. 2nd ed. 8. 358. 

 Crabro vexillatus, Panz. Faun. Germ. 46. 5 c? , 



lUig. Faun. Etrus. ii. 149. 



Van d. hind, Obs. ii. 45. 6 S (nee ? ). 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 132. 5 S . 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 375. 212(? ? . 

 Crabro vexillatus, Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 147- 27. 

 Crabro lapidarius, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 309. 6 ? . 



Van d. Lind, Obs. ii. 55. 14. 



Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym. 120. 

 Thyreopus clypeatus, -S^. Farg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. iii. 758. 4 $ . 

 Solenius lapidarius, St. Farg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. iii. 721. 8? ; 



Hym. iii. 117. !• 

 Hab. Britain; France; Germany; Italy; Sweden; Norway; 

 Finland. 



A comparison of specimens with the type in the Linnaean 

 Cabinet convinces me of the identity of the British insect with 

 the Swedish one, which has the name clypeata attached to it iu 

 the handwriting of Linnaeus. 



23. Crabro palmipes. B.M. 



Sphex palmipes, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 944. 20 S , 



Gmelin, i. 2730, 20, 



Vill. Entom. iii. 231. 31. 

 Crabro palmipes. Van d. Lind, Obs. ii. 47. 8. 



St. Farg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. iii. 765. 2 ; Hym. iii. 169. 2. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 332. 217. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 135. 14. 

 Crabro tarsatus. Shuck. Foss. Hym. 163. 23. 

 Crabro pusillus, Herr. Schciff. Faun. Germ. 181. 55. t. 24, & t. 23. 



Hab. Britain; France; Germany; Belgium; Sweden. 



